ProjectManager.com

APRIL 16, 2024

Excel is a versatile spreadsheet tool that can create a variety of graphs, charts and forms, including timelines for projects. In this blog, we’ll go through each step needed to create a timeline in Excel and explain the advantages and disadvantages of doing so. Why Should You Create a Project Timeline in Excel? Learn how to create a timeline that can be used to visualize how tasks or projects will be executed over time, identify who will be responsible for completing them and identify milestone

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

If you’re searching for a project management job, you’ve no doubt come across a range of different job titles. Which one should you go for? The ‘project manager’ job descriptions have a wide variety of roles and duties, which can make it hard to know what’s right for you. And therein lies the challenge. What ‘project manager’ means to one business will be slightly different to how another company uses the term.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 16, 2024

The path to success change is often strewn with obstacles, primarily due to resistance from within the organisation itself. Understanding these barriers is crucial for any VP of Delivery aiming to lead an agile transformation successfully. Let's explore the ten common sources of resistance and discuss the importance of addressing these challenges to ensure successful leadership and project implementation. 1.

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

By Sophie Hussey and Georgina Otubela What is ITI and how can it benefit your organisation and support your career development? In this article, we explore the foundational concepts of ITIL 4 and discuss how the ITIL framework has supported their career progression. Why ITIL and what’s in it for you? Regardless of whether you work in a technology function or the wider business, there are many learnings from the ITIL4 framework that can apply.

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Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Planio

MARCH 25, 2024

You can build the best product in the world, but without a solid customer acquisition strategy (and the right team to pull it off), no one will ever use it. But customer acquisition isn’t just about getting users for your product — it can be life or death for your company as a whole. In the last five years, the average cost of acquiring a new customer has increased by a staggering 60%.

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Ganttic

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Enthusiasm is great. But a truly winning formula couples unbridled enthusiasm with a plan of action. And that’s where visual planning comes in. That’s because, as knowledgeable or as passionate as you may be about your industry, you can’t expect to see success if you’re flying blind. Until you come up with a plan, you and your employees will never be on the same page.

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NimbleWork

MARCH 27, 2024

The Agile project management methodology encourages organizations to empower teams with clear responsibility and authority, so they can work together to autonomously develop ingenious and innovative solutions. From the workforce perspective, this requires trust between team members, cross-functional teams, business executives and stakeholders. It also requires a structured mechanism for collaboration and information sharing, a guiding framework that maps interdependencies between individuals and

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Online PM Courses

MARCH 20, 2024

PERT and CPM are two forms of Network Chart that are represented differently, and take different approaches to calculating schedules. The post What’s the Difference between PERT and CPM? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 11, 2024

This post explains what the Strategy Canvas tool is, and how to create a basic Strategy Canvas. It then walks through several examples – generically and for two real companies. Finally, it details the use and benefits of the tool for practicing strategy and project management. What is the Strategy Canvas Tool? The Strategy Canvas tool is a management tool introduced by W.

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Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend

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Binfire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

If you live in a technologically developed country, you’ve likely experienced some form of digital-first fraud. This is no exaggeration. In today’s modern world, online fraud is everywhere, waiting to undermine the integrity of the internet and its users. As the world shifts more and more of its commerce onto the web, opportunistic criminals are taking advantage of the new opportunities fraud presents, thereby undermining the trust critical to any economic system.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2024

The most successful companies always have one eye on the future so they can not only survive but thrive. That doesn’t happen without an organizational strategy to plan for the organization’s long-term success. Organizational strategy has many layers. We’ll first define the term and then go into the organizational strategy levels, as well as explain its importance in business.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

We gathered 57 of the top AI in project management statistics to help understand this key development in technology. Recent advancements in tech have changed how project managers work in 2024. Using our 20 years of project management experience, we reviewed AI statistics and trends from trusted third parties, which forms the foundation for this list.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of the 21st century, the demands on leaders are unprecedented. The digital revolution, a globalized economy, and a shifting social paradigm demand a leadership approach that is both innovative and grounded in reality. This is where Evidence-Based Leadership (EBL) comes into play. It's not just a framework; it's a paradigm shift in how decisions are made at the helm of an organization.

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You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

By Ray W. Frohnhoefer In the ever-evolving landscape of project management, staying ahead of the curve is not just beneficial—it’s imperative. As we step into 2024, the dynamics of project management continue to shift, demanding professionals to be agile, skilled, and strategically focused. This is a guide to exploring key strategies for growing your project management career throughout the year.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 26, 2024

Managers and team leads often struggle to track employee productivity, identify productivity gaps, and help the team be more productive. The good news is that the right employee productivity tracker solves all these pain points. We’ve analyzed lots of tools and came up with the ten best employee productivity tracking software that you can choose from.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 17, 2024

Understanding where you are as an organization and where you want to go is essential to transformation. Understanding that creating the conditions for teams, backlogs, and working tested product to exist is the real work of the transformation is critical. The next most important aspect of transformation is being able to demonstrate progress through tangible metrics that will resonate with executives.

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PM Times

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Statista survey reveals that the estimated revenue of the accounting industry will grow to $145 billion. The growth in the audit and accounting industry can be attributed to various factors, including increased demand for advisory services, the growing complexity of tax regulations, a rise in financial fraud, and ongoing technological advancements.

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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

NimbleWork

APRIL 7, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been all the rage these days. Bet you have heard of or tried using ChatGPT, allowing you to generate pieces of content. This tool is a perfect example of generative AI used for various businesses across different industries. Generative AI has recently become a game-changer in business. This technology has the power to boost your business and scale your operations.

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Online PM Courses

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

What can we use Artificial Intelligence for in Project Management? Are there any practical AI tools that can make our work easier? Yes. The post Artificial Intelligence Tools: Top 5 Practical Project Management Applications appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This post reviews the Four Actions Framework, first providing a simple definition and describing what makes it different and appealing. Then it provides three examples each of public sector and private companies and how they have each uniquely applied the framework. Then it looks at how the framework can be applied in devising strategy, and managing project, programs, and portfolios.

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International Institute for Learning

JANUARY 31, 2024

20 Common Mistakes Made by New or Inexperienced Project Managers By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D Abstract Even experienced project managers can make mistakes. Most project management training courses, even those focusing on the PMBOK ® Guide, stress “generally accepted best practices.” What is not taught are discussions on what not to do as a project manager.

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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

Coming up with long-term goals for a business or organization is just the beginning of a five-year project. Making sure your daily operations are working towards achieving those strategic goals and that they’re clearly communicated throughout the business or organization greatly improves by using a balanced scorecard. If you’re not familiar with a balanced scorecard, we’ll define the term and show the four perspectives it tracks as well as explain what should be included in a balanced scorecard.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 31, 2024

Projects always have certain constraints – there may be an urgency to complete a project because of external market factors, for example; or there may have to be tightly controlled costs because of a fixed or limited budget. The project will also be expected to deliver on certain expectations including quality levels. What is the Triple Constraint? The most commonly used planning constraint method in project management was historically the “triple constraint” – time, cost and scope –

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Scrum.org

APRIL 15, 2024

Transitioning from a traditional project manager to a Scrum Master requires a shift in mindset, especially in how you engage with stakeholders. Stakeholder "Performance", while traditionally viewed through a project management lens, offers valuable insights for this journey. In Scrum, the focus shifts from managing stakeholders in a project to fostering collaboration and alignment in a product or initiative environment.

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By Ruchi Gupta Ruchi is a Keynote in this year’s LeadCon2024 Online Conference! Register here. The buzz around generative AI is undeniable. The project management landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, with generative AI emerging as a game-changer. This technology is capable of creating entirely new content from existing data, but navigating its vast potential can feel overwhelming.

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Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.

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